Satish Sharma, President, APMEA (Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa) said, expanding product ranges, penetrating the rural markets with full range are some of the key factor to achieve the target, in an exclusive interaction with ETAuto.

Since only 1,000 cars are delivered so far and as some states are still in the process of finalising their policies for electric vehicles, EESL plans to complete the distribution of the vehicles by Sept 2019.

Dheeraj Hinduja, chairman at India’s second largest truck maker Ashok Leyland, prefers a low profile, but with managing director Vinod Dasari leaving at the end of the month, he says he’s become more “hands-on”.